[Remote] Design Contractor
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Switchboard is a progressive political and advocacy technology company building digital fundraising, organizing, messaging, and analytics tools for campaigns. The Contract Product Designer will own end-to-end design tasks, partner with engineering and product teams to ship UI and UX, create design artifacts, and extend the company’s design system.
Responsibilities
- Owning focused design tasks end-to-end, from early exploration through production-ready specs
- Partnering with engineering and product to deliver considered UI and UX across 3 cross-functional pods
- Producing design artifacts such as diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, and more that support product development discussions and cross-functional alignment
- Providing UI & simple UX consultations for engineers extending design system patterns
- Iterating rapidly based on user feedback, usage data, and input from the team
- Contributing to and extending our design system to keep patterns consistent and scalable
Skills
- 3+ years of UI/UX and product design experience, ideally on complex or data-rich products
- Comfortable picking up an existing design system and extending it without starting from scratch
- You take work through to completion and enjoy the iteration part, not just the exploration
- Can produce artifacts that move conversations forward and get teams aligned
- Works well with context but doesn't need a script. You can make good calls and flag the right questions
- Communicates clearly (verbally and visually) and is responsive to feedback from our engineering, product, and customer experience teams
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the US. Unfortunately we're unable to sponsor work visas at this time
- Excited to work in the progressive political and advocacy space (experience is a plus)
Benefits
- Strong performers will be considered for conversion to a full-time role, which includes full benefits (health, dental, vision, 401K, PTO, and parental leave)
- Open to remote or DC local
- Vibrant hybrid workplace in Washington D.C.
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